In Material Methods I outline the methodological possibilities and implications of researching
the material world. The book starts from the premise that the world is simultaneously material …

In 1896, Beatrix Potter visited the British Museum (Natural History) and wrote afterwards in
her diary,'To museum, studying labels on insects, being in want of advice, and not in a good …

Reproduction of archaeological material was a significant and serious enterprise for
antiquarians and museums in the long nineteenth century. Replicas embed many stories …

This paper presents research on the dispersal of objects from the Museum of Economic
Botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (rbgk) from 1847 to 1914. Established by William …

In this article it is argued that past examination of hoards and hoarding has concentrated too
much on the moment of deposition to the detriment of the period of collection and …

Linking the archive in its literal sense to the metaphorical repercussions of 'the archive'in a
conceptual sense opens new lines of inquiry into the processes employed in museums to …

Os museus de arqueologia são habitualmente associados à obra de coleccionadores ou
cientistas que criaram museus locais, regionais ou nacionais, cedendo o acesso público às …

Research into the history of collections can shed light not only on the epistemic, but also the
political and economic dimensions of the objects that museums collect. This article explores …

This article examines the impact of global decolonization in the 1960s on the National
Museum of Ethnology (NME) in Leiden, The Netherlands. It focusses especially on how the …

Adoptant une approche anthropologique des collections, cet article cherche à replacer la
collection d'art précolombien du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal dans son contexte …